✅ : A useful essay focuses on financial self-sufficiency and the "best interests of the minor" as the primary legal criteria .

❌ : Stating that parental consent is required is incorrect ; a judge can grant emancipation over parental objections if it serves the child's best interests.

✅ : A "useful" essay here typically argues that while it did not immediately free all slaves, it transformed the moral purpose of the Civil War and allowed Black Americans to join the Union Army .